Final Blog and Save the date
2014 marked the 13th anniversary of the Whistler Readers and Writers festival. And what an incredible event it was.
The Orenda – Book Review
I couldn’t watch the gratuitous violence in the film Pulp Fiction and I couldn’t read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. But I devoured every word of the nearly 500 pages of The Orenda.
Pique Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald
‘I thought I was sneaking up on myself’: Ann-Marie MacDonald on her new novel.
Friends – A Flashback
It was a small gathering then, some twenty people in my living room, a potluck dinner, and a discussion about writing with our guest author Andreas Schroeder…
Lucky Thirteen – BCBookLook
The Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, celebrating its thirteenth anniversary, has continued getting bigger and more innovative
Non-fiction. Really
…if someone asked me to define the broad genre of non-fiction, my knee-jerk reaction would be to lean hard against the opposite pole of the literary kingdom—fiction—and reply “it’s the stuff you can’t make up.”
The Confabulist – Book Review
Now you see it, now you don’t-ish
Award-winning author Steven Galloway’s tricky tale of Houdini and the man who killed him
Whistler Writers Festival enters 13th edition
Literary Cabaret, Spoken Workshop, plus all-day self-publishing workshop join cooks for books and novelists Joseph Boyden and Ann-Marie
SoBo Cookbook
This week we have two reviews of the SoBo Cookbook: Go ahead and burn it. It will taste better if you do, and A Journey to the West Coast.
Collaboration Nation
So, if you want to be a real writer, don’t procrastinate or collaborate. Go alone into the bush with your chainsaw already running.